Quotes About Absurdity

This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

HUMOR, LIKE METAPHOR, is simply two things placed side by side that don't belong together.

There, there are no chicken wings

I love the absurdity of everyday life. There's so much material there for a satirist.

The possibility suggests itself that no dreams, however absurd or senseless, are wasted in the universe. Embedded in the dream is a hunger for its own reification, a demand that imposes an obligation on reality and that grows imperceptibly into a bona fide claim, an IOU clamoring for payment.

Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?

He has no proper nose.

Hay en ese extraño caos que llamamos la vida algunas circunstancias y momentos absurdos en los cuales tomamos el Universo todo por una inmensa broma pesada, aunque no logremos percibir con claridad en qué consiste su gracia y sospechemos que nosotros mismos somos las víctimas de las burlas.

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

Look over there," I said. "Two women fucking a polar bear." "Please," he said. "Don't tell me those things. Not now.

property, fed on each side by nationalistic stupidity. I summoned the Borges observation: two bald men fighting over a comb.

Had he expected me to hump her leg?

What the hell is this?" Desandra asked. "This is Cuddles. She's a mammoth donkey." Derek grinned, leaning on the fence. "Do you have any self-respect left?" "Nope.

Among advocates for life after death, nobody even tries to sit down and do the hard work of explaining how the basic physics of atoms and electrons would have to be altered in order for this to be true. If we tried, the fundamental absurdity of the task would quickly become evident.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.

If I've learned anything from social media, it's truly that the most irrelevant people always say the most absurd stuff.

Donald Trump is like a practical joke that got out of hand.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

Why he would agree to install an eight-by-eight-foot fish tank and then not fill it with a single dolphin made me want to burn his eyebrows off.